History of Rome: Early history to the burning of Rome by the GaulsT. Fellowes, 1857 - Rome |
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... cause , may become ob- scure to our children , is to us perfectly familiar . This is an advantage common to all the ... causes and tendency of its revolutions , and the spirit of its people and its laws , ought to be understood by none ...
... cause , may become ob- scure to our children , is to us perfectly familiar . This is an advantage common to all the ... causes and tendency of its revolutions , and the spirit of its people and its laws , ought to be understood by none ...
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... caused Numitor's only son to be slain , and made his daughter Silvia become one of the virgins who watched the ever - burning fire of the goddess Vesta . But the god Mamers , who is called also Mars , beheld the virgin and loved her ...
... caused Numitor's only son to be slain , and made his daughter Silvia become one of the virgins who watched the ever - burning fire of the goddess Vesta . But the god Mamers , who is called also Mars , beheld the virgin and loved her ...
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... cause made war and of the the fair Upon this the people of Cænina first made war upon How for the people of Romulus : but they were beaten , and the Sabines Romulus with his own hand slew their king Acron . on them , Next the people of ...
... cause made war and of the the fair Upon this the people of Cænina first made war upon How for the people of Romulus : but they were beaten , and the Sabines Romulus with his own hand slew their king Acron . on them , Next the people of ...
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... causes or with their authors . As before then , I must first give the stories in their oldest and most genuine form ; and then offer , in meagre contrast , all that can be collected or conjectured of the real history . CHAPTER IV ...
... causes or with their authors . As before then , I must first give the stories in their oldest and most genuine form ; and then offer , in meagre contrast , all that can be collected or conjectured of the real history . CHAPTER IV ...
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... causes amidst the people , and acted in all things as if he were king , till after a while it was known that the king ... cause of the poor , and to stop the oppression of the rich . He made war with the Etruscans " , and conquered them ...
... causes amidst the people , and acted in all things as if he were king , till after a while it was known that the king ... cause of the poor , and to stop the oppression of the rich . He made war with the Etruscans " , and conquered them ...
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Page 125 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest (For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all; all honourable men), Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Page 29 - Ferentia, where the Latins held the great civil assemblies of their nation. Further to the north, on the edge of the Alban Hills looking towards Rome, was the town and citadel of Tusculum ; and beyond this, a lower summit crowned with the walls and towers of Labicum seems to connect the Alban hills with the line of the Apennines just at the spot where the citadel of...
Page 28 - The hills of Rome are such as we rarely see in England, low in height, but with steep and rocky sides. In early times the natural wood still remained in patches amidst the buildings, as at this day it grows here and there on the green sides of the Monte Testaceo.
Page 86 - Upon this they all mounted their horses and rode first to Rome ; and there they found the wives of Titus, and of Aruns. and of Sextus, feasting and making merry. Then they rode on to Collatia, and it was late in the night; but they found Lucretia, the wife of Tarquinius of Collatia, neither feasting, nor yet sleeping, but she was sitting with all her handmaids around her, and all were working at the loom. So when they saw this, they all said, ' Lucretia is the worthiest lady.
Page 132 - ... yet it is in human nature that a long undisturbed possession should give a feeling of ownership ; the more so as, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was, in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier to another.
Page 173 - Rome in the year 261, thirteen were now either destroyed, or were in the possession of the Opicans ; that on the Alban hills themselves Tusculum alone remained independent ; and that there was no other friendly city to obstruct the irruptions of the enemy into the territory of Rome. Accordingly, that territory was plundered year after year, and whatever defeats the plunderers may at times have sustained, yet they were never deterred from renewing a contest which they found in the main profitable...
Page 165 - Caius sitting on the general's seat in the midst of the camp, and the Volscian chiefs were standing round him. When he first saw them, he wondered what it could be, but presently he knew his mother, who was walking at the head of the train, and then he could not contain himself, but leapt down from his seat, and ran to meet her, and was going to kiss her, but she stopped him and said, 'Ere thou kiss me, let me know whether I am speaking to an enemy or to my son ; whether I stand in thy camp as thy...
Page 132 - ... state. It is easy, however, to see what motive the patricians, as a body, had to oppose all such measures, since it was their interest, though not their right, to keep the lands unallotted. The enactment of A.
Page 88 - Meanwhile King Tarquinius set out with speed to Rome to put down the tumult. But Lucius turned aside from the road that he might not meet him, and came to the camp; and the soldiers joyfully received him, and they drove out the sons of Tarquinius.
Page 91 - Then the horsemen on both parts fought, and afterward the main battles, and the Veientians were beaten, but the Tarquinians beat the Romans, and the battle was neither won nor lost; but in the night there came a voice out of the wood that was hard by, and it said, "One man more has fallen on the part of the Etruscans than...